An afternoon with mom

 

Since Jared had school today and I needed a break from the norm, I decided to take the kids for a walk and go to Chevy’s Mexican Restaurant for lunch.

As it is cooling off a little, we bundled up.  Kyra got to wear her jacket for the first time…I did good planning and it is the right size for now.  However, Rylee had to wear his jacket that is 12-18 months and it barely fit.

We got there and got both kids set up in their high chairs.  It was interesting to tell them, “just me and 2 high chairs, oh and somewhere to put the double stroller”.  I think a few people thought I was crazy.

Rylee enjoyed coloring for a moment and then dug into the chips and salsa.  It is a good thing that I don’t like salsa because he double dips…by scooping up salsa, licking it off, and scooping up more salsa with the same chip.

My favorite meal at Chevy’s is their sizzling steak fajitas…unfortunately my steak came out a little pale and tasted like chicken .  But it came with lots of beans, which I love.

While I was packing up my leftovers…Rylee tried to help pack his up, and Kyra tried to help too…but that resulted in corn tamalito on the table in front of Kyra.  She started eating it and loved it and kept trying to get Rylee’s plate to get more.

Kyralynn enjoying Rylee’s corn tamalito

When the check came, I was charged for the steak fajitas which are $2.00 more than the chicken, so I decided I needed to tell them.  They fixed the check so I was charged for what I actually got and got a dessert paid for by the waitress, who is the one that ordered it wrong.

As part of his meal, Rylee got an ice cream Kiddie Kone.  He usually won’t eat ice cream so I have eaten his in the past and they are delicious.  It is really good vanilla ice cream on a cone that is made from a deep fried flour tortilla that is dipped in cinnamon and sugar, soo much better than sugar cones.

Since Rylee had most of his cone left and I was ready to go, I loaded the kids up in the stroller and headed home with Rylee eating his cone on the way.  By the time we got to our street, both kids were asleep.  The big trick was trying to get both kids and the stroller upstairs, while trying to keep kids asleep.  It didn’t work.  Kyra woke up right after I took this picture and she cried when I set her down in the living room to get Rylee.  Rylee did stay asleep, but I also left him sticky because Kyra was screaming.  Then Jared got home and brought the stroller up for me.

All in all, it was a good outing.  Nice weather (the sign on the bowling alley said it was 68 degrees when we were walking home), had good dinner conversation with my mom via text message and pix, had an ok meal & desert, the kids were good (many comments from people on how well behaved they were), and got Rylee to take a nap.  Would have been better if Kyra would have stayed asleep too, since I had things I needed to do during naptime, but oh well.

P.S.  according to my pedometer:  just over 7,000 steps, almost 3 miles (I think it was closer to 2 miles though), burned around 300 calories (but I think there was more than that in just my dessert).